Webhire E-mail sillyness
Mar. 14th, 2006 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lensmanOkay, For such a high tech academic inst, There are an amazing number of technically clueless people....
I just had to spend an hour diagnosing the fact that someone in HR screwed up the data entry into the even dumber webhire database. All the while they kept telling me "oh it must be your spam filters", When in fact there is a damn typo (Okay it could also "possibly" have been a little bit of data corruption on the webhire database, but the fact that it coincides with the date that one of the positions in the req was filled and only affects this one field makes that seem less likely.) Anyway when I finally got the HR person to actually LOOK at the damn transaction logs that for the req that webhire is trying to send us, she finally saw it was sending to the wrong place, but since the config screen shows the data entered correctly, she had no idea how to fix it. At which point I was finally able to point out that she should just pass the problem along to webhire...
and now I know more about the webhire system than I really ever wanted to know, Gee thanks....
All this before I had the chance to grab some coffee.... but now that the caffeine is starting to hit doesn't someone on my f-list work for webhire, or at least used to?
I just had to spend an hour diagnosing the fact that someone in HR screwed up the data entry into the even dumber webhire database. All the while they kept telling me "oh it must be your spam filters", When in fact there is a damn typo (Okay it could also "possibly" have been a little bit of data corruption on the webhire database, but the fact that it coincides with the date that one of the positions in the req was filled and only affects this one field makes that seem less likely.) Anyway when I finally got the HR person to actually LOOK at the damn transaction logs that for the req that webhire is trying to send us, she finally saw it was sending to the wrong place, but since the config screen shows the data entered correctly, she had no idea how to fix it. At which point I was finally able to point out that she should just pass the problem along to webhire...
and now I know more about the webhire system than I really ever wanted to know, Gee thanks....
All this before I had the chance to grab some coffee.... but now that the caffeine is starting to hit doesn't someone on my f-list work for webhire, or at least used to?
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Date: 2006-03-14 05:53 pm (UTC)The issue hasn't filtered to me, but I heard of some other MIT silliness going on earlier and I though to myself "they are so going to leave us if this keeps up!"
BTW, if you need me to check on something I can probably make some queries. I don't have production db access anymore, but I can work around such things if I have to.
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Date: 2006-03-14 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-14 09:18 pm (UTC)